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Kalldas Bhattacharya
may be an order of relative subjectivity among them, and each of these may have phases relatively inoie toward the subject than others But these questions we may ignore for the present The main point here is that the mental is more subjective than the bodily That mental states have a sort of subjectivity wluch is freer than that of body is almost universally recognised If the bebaviourists and others of theii kin demu, let them note, first, that body itself is either mine or yours or his, and often even felt as I, you, oi he, which is not necessarily the story of other things of the world, and, secondly, that though many statements of peculiar mental occurences and behaviours can be reduced to ones that need not niean these, this does not affect other simpler statements which are not so reducible Whether these simpler statements point 01 not to existent mental states as qualitatively diffe rent from physical ones depends entirely on the theory of ineaning onc upholds Like most Indian thinkers, the Advailin upholds the commonsense theory of meaning which is that whatever is spoken of in a way exists exactly that way, unless in particular specific cases there are reasons to the contrary
These states are mental, but they are objects at the same time Felt, in themselves, as relatively more subjective than either body or physical things, they are yet experienced as objects to, and discovered too that way by, intiospection (anuvyavasāja ) or mental perception (mānasa-pratyaksa), as the case may be, quite in the same way as things of the world
as an illusion Yet the illusory detected as illusory is not wholly dissociated froin the space in which other things are As corrected, it is indeed no longer assertable to be in that space--It cannot be asserted as the resident of the ordinary world-apd yet, even then, its to be in that space, to be a resident of the ordinary worldnot wholly denied either This is what is called introspection in ordinary psychological literature. Very soon we shall be speaking of quite another sort of introspection which, as distinct from psychological introspection, will be called spiritual introspection (sakşt-jhana)
